Mynors rang in vain at the front door, and then they walked round the house to the orchard, and discovered Sarah Vodrey taking in clothes from a line—a diminutive and wasted figure, with scanty, grey hair, a tiny face permanently soured, and bony hands contorted by rheumatism.
In the glow of arrival she had a vague notion that her relations with him had been permanently softened by absence.
Through the whole performance—timid instrumental duets, conceited vocal solos, sonorous, brass-lunged choruses—my attention gave but one eye and one ear to the stage, the other being permanently retained in the service of Dr.
I kept my ear and mind in perpetual readiness for the tender theme; my patience was ordered to be permanently under arms, and my sympathy desired to keep its cornucopia replenished and ready for outpouring.
I learned at the British Museum that he was a recognized authority upon the subject, and that the name of Vandeleur has been permanently attached to a certain moth which he had, in his Yorkshire days, been the first to describe.
But we begin to fear that the little girl is permanently injured in the back.
Why should you be astonished that an average of over an hour a day given to the mind should permanently and completely enliven the whole activity of the mind?
" "Oh, no; oh, no," said Mr Stelling, "not permanently; only for a little while.
But he rode home with a terribly lucid vision of the difficulty there would be in arranging any result that could be permanently counted on with this man.
The result had oozed forth gradually, like the discovery that your neighbor has set up an unpleasant kind of manufacture which will be permanently under your nostrils without legal remedy.
His value of her was sincere; and, if not permanently, he was truly afflicted by her death.
Often, however, such people were more permanently agreeable to be with than the others, in that they remained grateful.
For a long while past she had been aware that her life was a noise, but it had seemed to be very much about something; a noise, indeed, about so much that she felt she must get out of earshot for a little or she would be completely, and perhaps permanently, deafened.
If he had been Satan himself there would have been plenty of weaklings ready to scribble their names to a pardon-petition, and drip a tear on it from their permanently impaired and leaky water-works.
Tink was very contemptuous of the rest of the house, as indeed was perhaps inevitable, and her chamber, though beautiful, looked rather conceited, having the appearance of a nose permanently turned up.
Others can stop you temporarily, but only you can do it permanently.
He lost his mother and sister in a car accident and he was permanently and horribly injured too.
The reason being; I've permanently succeeded in blocking all the possible chances for anyone or anything to make me feel bad.
Disney said that as a result of the display it has "permanently prevented" Cini from visiting its parks.
For example, in a chapter on methods for embracing failure, he writes bluntly that "perfectionism, at bottom, is fear-driven striving … [at] its extremes, it is an exhausting and permanently stressful way to live.
